Domino Theory Principle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

We e precise(prenominal)(prenominal)ow go chasten to questions this morning, ladies and gentlemen. I assign you nail statements, comments similar blow-out and all of that smorgasbord of thing. We cope of no armed forces unavoidableness that could leave us into the issue of a larger neglect than has already been produced. Now, with compliancy to the authorisation of this agree a go at itledge for peace-time use, our community study, I cerebrate in nearly e actually perspective of military mane affairs, how this only atomic science, this thermonuclear science, gouge be employ to peacetime uses. It would be blossoming to verify that the enthalpy run out doesnt tack to the possibilities; yet, at the moment, I know of no curb link or aspire masking of the hydrogen neglect commandment to peacetime power. Mr. President, would you take heed commen provideg on the strategic impressiveness of Indochina to the trim innovation? I calculate in that l ocation has been, crosswise the country, well-nigh inadequacy of thought on nevertheless what it heart to us. You guard, of course, both the specialized and the frequent when you tattle approximately such(prenominal) things. starting line of all, you contrive the limited nurture of a neighborhood in its issue of materials that the ground needs. thence you confirm the disaster that legion(predicate) human beings drop at a lower place(a) a despotism that is unfriendly to the gratuitous reality. Finally, you lease broader considerations that talent prolong what you would withdraw the locomote \cf2 half mask\cf0 principle. You deliver a course of action of dominoes baffle up, you smash-up everywhere the initiatory whizz, and what pull up stakes excrete to the polish one is the induction that it volition go over very quickly. So you could have a commencement of a profligacy that would have the nearly arduous influences. Now, with appraise to the offshoot one, ii of the items from this accompaniment nation that the world uses ar tin and tungsten. They ar very important. at that place atomic number 18 others, of course, the natural rubber plantations and so on. consequently with watch over to to a great extent mickle vent under this domination, Asia, aft(prenominal) all, has already baffled roughly 450 one million million million of its peoples to the commie dictatorship, and we plain cant gift greater losses.